Kyle Davis on Nostr: This wasn't some sort of proprietary thing, IIRC, you just plugged it between your ...
This wasn't some sort of proprietary thing, IIRC, you just plugged it between your printer and the parallel port and it just worked. We used it on our #PCjr and later our 286 machine.
Reading the description in the catalogue it was even more interesting than I thought. It was programmable and had an OS. In the late 80s!
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